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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 09:45:54 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   Because of a popular YouTube video people now constantly bring up composite CGA, but without mentioning that only a couple of dozen titles supported it.
   (Or the fact that it isn't mentioned in IBM's documentation. Or that it wasn't standardized. Oh, if I only had a quarter for each time people bring up the damn composite during the CGA discourse.)

   • Stephen Kitt (skitt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 09:54:22 UTC Stephen Kitt

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     @dosnostalgic only a couple of dozen? https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2013/11/ibm-pc-color-composite-graphics.html lists 110…

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:07:28 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Stephen Kitt

     @skitt I was thinking about games that were CGA-only, which a large chunk of this list isn't, but okay a FEW dozen. Which is still a drop in the CGA supporting Ocean.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:08:42 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • root42
     • Le ronchon masqué 🧐 仮面 Grumpy
     • Jon Shute

     @OBO @jonshute @root42 I believe that there are one or two games/demos that do PAL artifact colors on some platforms, but none of them are on PC.

   • Le ronchon masqué 🧐 仮面 Grumpy (obo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:08:43 UTC Le ronchon masqué 🧐 仮面 Grumpy

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     • root42
     • Jon Shute

     @dosnostalgic @jonshute @root42 exactely like the artifacting on Atari 400/800 and Apple 2. NTSC artifacting.

   • root42 (root42@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:08:45 UTC root42

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     • Jon Shute

     @jonshute @dosnostalgic or that it didn’t work in Europe due to PAL…

   • Jon Shute (jonshute@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:08:47 UTC Jon Shute

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     @dosnostalgic Or that most people had no idea it even existed back in the day.

   • Stephen Kitt (skitt@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:09:26 UTC Stephen Kitt

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     @dosnostalgic ah right, yes, I agree on both counts! I suspect that supporting composite CGA made more sense for games with EGA/VGA resources than for games originally developed purely for CGA. But by the time EGA and VGA were around, how many users were still using CGA on an NTSC TV?